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Re: Understanding Timertask

Timer task is really nice to keep the Thread count down on the device.

Anything that absolutely does not require it's own thread (i.e.blocking calls to HTTP, GPS, etc) but needs to be executed under certain interval should be done under a timer task

I know that latest BB's have a higher thread limit per app, but on earlier devices 5.0 and below you can reach the Thread limit really quickly (i.e. 15 threads would start throwing exceptions ). Newer devices have a higher Thread limit, but TimerTask is still very convenient and recommended.